Immigration Pros And Cons Essay

Annotated Bibliography In “Shadow Immigrations and its Constitutional Dangers,” the author sheds light on the improper---and she argues unconstitutionally illegal---recent trend of local police agencies all over the U.S. taking on the duties of federal officers when it comes to immigration policy. This research is valuable to my own paper not only because it has concrete evidence that Latinos are regularly targeted by local police as a means of “catching” them for questioning by federal agencies, but also because it shows how much unaccountability can hide what the true statistics are in regards to police brutality.
During recent years, as mentioned in this article, local agencies policing neighborhoods with high immigrant populations have increasingly targeted undocumented Latinos for petty crimes as a means of enforcing federal immigration laws indirectly. In doing so, local agencies are committing civil rights violations with increasing fervency, as people are now being profiled and charged for one crime under the guise of being accused of another. Sweeney argues that because there is no
The study also provides a few suggestions as to how the issue might be resolved in the near future, before it becomes too much of a norm and racist aggression towards undocumented immigrants continues at the rates it has been over the past decade. While the paper does a great job at coming up with strong potential solutions to this issue, such as the idea of constitutional lawyers going after the federal immigration agency and increasing civil rights advocacy, it is in the discussion of constitutional law that Sweeney shows clearly how big of a problem this particular problem is, which is helpful in itself for those seeking to raise awareness and find advocacy for positive